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Join us on October 12 to celebrate a watershed moment in technology. The first call from a mobile phone was made 50 years ago. Since then, the cellular phone has gone from a communicator to a life assistant. Bhaskar Chakravorti will moderate the speaker panel.
On the sidelines of the 78th UNGA, Digital Planet co-hosted a panel discussion with Mastercard on the opportunities and challenges in the digitalization of government programs and services and how public-private partnerships can deliver on the promise of a more transparent, inclusive, efficient, and resilient governance and help bridge the gap between citizens and governments.
IDEA 2030 Council members Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi and David Porteous collaborated with Priya Vora and Peter Rabley on this timely piece about why Digital Public Infrastructure matters in emerging markets.
India's economic rise seems promising with drivers like demand, supply, policy reforms, and geopolitics, but challenges remain.
Fuel African labor markets: Embrace digital shifts, empower 'systems
orchestrators,' drive growth for 375M job seekers.
In this interview, Bhaskar Chakravorti discusses the importance and future of digital public infrastructure with Hindol Sengupta.
Regulating artificial intelligence to protect U.S. democracy could end up jeopardizing democracy abroad.
According to the latest Henley Passport Index, India has visa free access to 57 countries around the world. But what does this mean for the world's most populous country and its access to foreign nations? How powerful is the Indian passport? And how easy is it for Indians to travel abroad for vacation, education and employment? This video talks about all of this and more.
Artificial intelligence is disrupting and transforming our working lives. While it holds the promise of greater productivity, it could also threaten a wide range of jobs and make income inequality even worse. Today, how research into artificial intelligence tech may be targeting the wrong problems and missing chances to help humanity.
A look at how previous waves of digital technologies affected workers offers some insight into AI’s potential impact in the years to come.
The scramble to win the GPT race could divert essential resources from the development of more socially meaningful uses of AI
Investing in digital public infrastructure in India revolutionizes business and governance. Successful projects require government-business coordination.
New digital technologies have been a constant for workers over the past few decades, with a mixed record on the economy and individuals’ daily lives. AI’s effect will likely be just as unpredictable.
Part 2: Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
Is it possible for an economy to be both digitally inclusive and at the forefront of innovation-based digital growth?
Is it possible for an economy to be both digitally inclusive and at the forefront of innovation-based digital growth?
Benchmarking 90 economies' progress in closing the gender, rural-urban, and socioeconomic digital divide
Right now, half of Americans aren’t using broadband internet. In an effort to close this digital divide, the Biden administration has launched the Internet for All initiative: a massive investment of funds to expand access to high-speed internet in the world’s most valuable and second most evolved digital economy.
An increase in broadband access in the US reduced Covid mortality rates, with the most significant impact in metro areas. Internet access is an increasingly important tool in the public health toolbox.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is the latest source of funding to expand broadband across the US.
High growth sectors and high median wage jobs are still out of reach for college educated Black people in America.
Women remain under-represented in high-paying technical and decision-making roles in STEM professions. This disparity is a vexing problem and the Achilles’ heel of the entire technology industry.
We present Progress to Digital Parity—an interactive scorecard that tracks the journey towards realizing the goal of a digital economy for everyone, everywhere.
Data governance has become an essential, albeit challenging task for policymakers. They must develop new visions, strategies, structures, policies, and processes. Governments that can accomodate a flexible approach to governing different types of data use and re-use in a responsive,…
IDEA 2030 Council members Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi and David Porteous collaborated with Priya Vora and Peter Rabley on this timely piece about why Digital Public Infrastructure matters in emerging markets.
India's economic rise seems promising with drivers like demand, supply, policy reforms, and geopolitics, but challenges remain.
In this interview, Bhaskar Chakravorti discusses the importance and future of digital public infrastructure with Hindol Sengupta.
Regulating artificial intelligence to protect U.S. democracy could end up jeopardizing democracy abroad.
According to the latest Henley Passport Index, India has visa free access to 57 countries around the world. But what does this mean for the world's most populous country and its access to foreign nations? How powerful is the Indian…
AI disrupts work, promising productivity but risking job loss and income inequality. Research may focus on wrong problems, missing chances to aid humanity.
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